Gas

 $3.00 plus for a gallon of gas. Is your driving or lifestyle altered??
Mine is some. I don't have a long commute and all the necessary stops
are within 5 miles of home. How about you?  Why? What are you going to
do different? What are you doing different??

 

Why would high gas prices force you to do something different?  If Gas is
too high for you then you screwed your budget up somewhere or you are in the
wrong business.

High gas hasn't affected the stock market so I have no cause for concern at
this point for saving and investing.   Inflation has been below predictions
and wages have been slightly exceeding experts predictions.   Things are
humming along just fine.  A tight labor market and low interest rates means
you should have been making more money and saving lots on your mortgage to
offset any possible gas increase.

Most people have had their wages go up and have low borrowing costs on their
cars and homes and education.  If you cannot afford $3.00 gas then you
screwed up or you are in the wrong line of work.  people have been savings
thousands of dollars off the cost of owning a vechile before gas prices are
factored in and people are saving tens of thousands of dollars on low
interest rates..


Sounds like you screwed up your finances.

 

Because its a relevant cost. We dont have an Aldi in my town and
it makessense to consider the cost of the gas if I choose to buy one
of their heavily discounted high dollar value consumer durables etc.


Wrong, its what determines whether a particular trip makes sense etc.


Wrong again.


Corse it has.


It makes sense to waste less on gas by not driving some stupidly inefficient car
etc.


experts predictions.

Irrelevant to whether the price of gas affects some activitys.


more money and

It makes more sense to be sensible about gas usage anyway.


Wrong. And you dont know that he qualifys for better paid work anyway.


before gas prices

interest rates..

And can save heaps on what they spend on gas buy using a gas efficient
car and considering whether particular longer trips make any sense as well.


Thanks for that completely superfluous proof that you have never ever had a
clue.

 
Unfortunately, this argument doesn't do those on fixed incomes, such as many
retirees, much good.  If you're in this category and live where there are
transportation alternatives, such as good public transit, then the high cost
of gas doesn't have too much impact on you.  If, on the other hand, you have
no alternatives, then all you can do for the moment is grin and bear it.

As far as the cost of gas to the general population is concerned, all the
sturm and drang I keep seeing is misplaced.  At bottom, Americans don't care
what the cost of gas is - as long as they can get it.  As a survivor of the
gas crunch of  the early 70's I can assure you that the only thing that will
get the population beating on the pols to fix things is if gasoline gets into
short supply. Frankly, I don't believe the management of any of the oil
companies is stupid enough to let the supply dry up, since that would bring
the wrath of the driving public down on them quicker than anything else they
do, including price gouging.  Limited refinery capacity; yeah, right.  It is
to laugh.

W.

 

I work from home... Frankly, I didn't know gas was that high since I
haven't filled my tank in a while.